Justice and politics in energy access for education, livelihoods and health: How socio-cultural processes mediate the winners and losers

Kumar, Ankit

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.11.029

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“…Such findings suggest that programs and policies targeted to reduce vulnerability in these areas could prioritize the households/villages based on the type of occupation, followed by the level of education and economic class. However, social class is the least influencing variable, which implied that the programs and policies should not be based on social class, which was in contrast to other findings from India [51]. Such insight reiterates that policies/programs/schemes/aids aimed at minimizing vulnerability in the forest fringe villages should not be based on social groups.…”

Section: Prioritization Of Programs and Policies Based On Vulnerabilimentioning

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Vulnerability Assessment of Forest Fringe Villages of Madhya Pradesh, India for Planning Adaptation Strategies

Yadava

Sinha

2020

Sustainability

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This study aims to assess the climate change vulnerability of forest fringe villages of Madhya Pradesh, India, and to identify the major drivers of vulnerability, which could help to develop effective adaptation strategies. A total of 325 households spread in 29 villages of Hoshangabad, and Mandla districts were chosen for primary data collection during the summer of 2015. The selection of villages and households was carried out through stratified random sampling and systematic random sampling, respectively. The vulnerability index (score) was developed and analyzed with respect to the different socioeconomic parameters. The analysis revealed that it is not the social class of a household but the economic condition, level of education, and type of occupation/livelihood of the members of a household that are significant factors influencing the vulnerability of a household. Such findings suggest that government programs need to be designed to address the welfare of all social classes in the forest fringe villages. The study has significance in terms of providing a framework for prioritizing target households for different programs related to vulnerability reduction in the forest fringe areas.Sustainability 2020, 12, 1253 2 of 17 even more vulnerable. Therefore, climate change vulnerability assessment of forest-dependent people is important to design suitable adaptation strategies [8,9].Globally, studies have attempted to establish a link between climate change and poverty, framing it in terms of vulnerabilities, accounting for one's exposure, and the capacity to adapt to climate risk [2]. The vulnerability due to climate change has three deterministic components, exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity [10]. Exposure cannot be altered much at the household level as it is a climatic variation; however, the adaptive capacity and sensitivity of people can be improved to help them cope with the climatic vulnerability and reduce the impact of exposure [11]. Moreover, the data on climate variables are at the macro level; study at the micro-level has used adaptive capacity alone to assess the vulnerability [12,13]. Adaptive capacity refers to relatively longer-term or more sustainable adjustments that can modify a system's sensitivity and exposure to a disturbance [14]. The socioeconomic status of the household influences the capacity to cope with climate change vulnerability [15,16]. However, the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report has given more emphasis to mapping and managing the risks of climate change impacts resulting from the interaction of vulnerability, exposure, and hazards, whereas the previous report emphasized managing vulnerability based on measuring exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity [2,3].In India, around two-thirds of the population live in rural areas and are predominantly dependent on climate-sensitive sectors, especially agriculture and forestry [17]. The projected mean annual temperature of India has increased by 0.51 • C per 100 years and 0.2 • C per decade , with a more pronounced increase...

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Section: Prioritization Of Programs and Policies Based On Vulnerabilimentioning

confidence: 77%

Vulnerability Assessment of Forest Fringe Villages of Madhya Pradesh, India for Planning Adaptation Strategies

Yadava

Sinha

2020

Sustainability

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“…The need to re-examine the ways in which transitions towards sustainable energy provision can be achieved, as called for by these authors, brings together two related concerns. Firstly a concern that development benefits, particularly in relation to the assumed impact of solar lighting on education, livelihoods and health may not materialise in the manner imagined (Cloke, Mohr, & Brown, 2017;Kumar, 2018) or may not endure over time (Kumar et al, 2019). Secondly, and particularly pertinent for this paper a concern that the processes of creating and facilitating markets for small scale solar have political and socio-cultural effects beyond the achievement of energy access (Ockwell et al, 2018).…”

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Diffusion on the ground: Rethinking the logic of scale and access in off-grid solar in Sri Lanka

Turner

2019

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Fourth, lighting has been seen as central to the roll‐out of “modernity” to the countryside, and the associated developmental agenda. Despite evidence that many people give more importance to other forms of electrification (Kumar, ), lighting is a key marker of development. In the last decade, many western for‐profit and not‐for‐profit actors have “experimented” with various forms of lighting provisions based around solar‐powered LED lamps (Adkins et al., ), as well as more innovative projects such as “Litre of Light” (Numminen & Lund, ).…”

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“…Mr Bedi connects the arrival of light to the arrival of development, modernity, and “enlightenment.” Efforts to bring modern energy to people around the world, primarily in the form of lighting from solar lamps and micro‐grids, focus on this rhetoric of development (Kumar, ). Such an understanding has a long history cross‐culturally (Edensor, ), and so it is perhaps unsurprising to find it in Bihar.…”

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Transforming rural light and dark under planetary urbanisation: Comparing ordinary countrysides in India and the UK

Kumar

Shaw

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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Contemporary global lightscapes are becoming increasingly complex and varied, creating an unusual geography of technological development and diffusion that defies many easy narratives of global interconnectivity. Specifically, new LED lighting technologies are being created through rural experimentation in both Global North and Global South. This makes lighting, and darkness, an interesting lens through which to intervene in debates on the relationship between city, countryside, and planet, specifically addressing the theoretical developments of comparative urbanism and planetary urbanisation. Heading calls to develop conceptual material from both Global North and Global South, we use case studies from Bihar (India) and the North Pennines (UK) to argue that the changing lighting technologies and practices show how “ordinary countrysides” are contributing to new planetary ways of living. We argue that while there are differences in how darkness and the implementation of artificial lighting are perceived in these sites, there are similarities that reveal an ongoing rural form of planetary living, outside the claims of urbanisation. Particularly, rural lives are marked by a closer connection to the planet, as expressed through experiences of rural darkness. Furthermore, in both sites the tenuous grasp on infrastructure and state services seems to reveal a shared rural experience. These findings suggest shared rural experiences of globalisation, but that the socio‐spatial contexts of places remain important in understanding their location within global systems. Furthermore, we join recent calls to suggest that further exploration of the difference between “global” and “planetary” might add nuance to theoretical trends in urban studies, rural studies, and geography.

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Justice and politics in energy access for education, livelihoods and health: How socio-cultural processes mediate the winners and losers

Cited by 63 publications

References 54 publications

Vulnerability Assessment of Forest Fringe Villages of Madhya Pradesh, India for Planning Adaptation Strategies

Vulnerability Assessment of Forest Fringe Villages of Madhya Pradesh, India for Planning Adaptation Strategies

Diffusion on the ground: Rethinking the logic of scale and access in off-grid solar in Sri Lanka

Transforming rural light and dark under planetary urbanisation: Comparing ordinary countrysides in India and the UK

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